Au Canada (Mock Parliament revival, sign-up and rules)

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Andrew Scheer for the Conservatives, please.

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Andrew Scheer for the Conservatives, please.

Granted. As opposition leader, I presume?

Sure.

What is the POD for there being no Liberal "wave"?

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Andrew Scheer for the Conservatives, please.

Granted. As opposition leader, I presume?

Sure.

What is the POD for there being no Liberal "wave"?

Broadly speaking, NDP runs a somewhat-stronger campaign than IRL, and hang on to more of their 2011 voters as a result. Truth be told, I wanted a hung parliament so that it would actually matter how the opposition parties voted (since party discipline in Canada is much stronger than in the US).

Could this be why the NDP is a viable party, since the Liberals vote more center-left?

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I would be more then willing to play as the Leader of the Liberal Party.

Woo!

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I will play as Eliot Cutler.

The American politician?

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Lol i got the first name wrong. I will be Irwin Cutler. Sorry for the typo, lol.

Whoops, lol.

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One thing is certain: the next fourteen days are slated to be among the most interesting weeks in the modern history of Canadian politics.

Little did we know how interesting...

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While I said many things, the word "proud" was not one of them.

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Trudeau issues a tongue lashing on the Tories for their recent lies on the economy at a rally in British Columbia

As I've brought up before, economists have calculated that Steven Harper was the worst Prime Minister since World War Two on the economy. Today, our good friend Mr Scheer has decided to admit that unwittingly. He has attacked the state of the economy and blamed me for it. What he forgets is these recessions that we are recovering from occured under Harper. It is the Liberal party which is picking up the pieces.

He also spews an outright lie on taxes, saying that a Liberal government will charge exorbitant tax rates. This is simply false. Did he forget the tax cuts we passed for 9 million Canadians in December? We are clear where we stand on this. The only people who will see a tax increase is the top 1%, its time they paid their fair share.

What Scheer and the Tories clearly fail to understand is that we need investment in our economy to bring it back to speed. If you wanna see the results of the Tories' tax cuts, look no further than Harper. He cut taxes on the rich and he ended up with a terrible economic record.

OOC: IIRC, the turn ended Friday, I received an extension to post until tonight because I was busy all throughout the week.

Campaigns in real life happen in real time, where campaigns can react to what the other campaign is doing. Its fair that if you get extra time, everyone else gets extra time so they can respond to you, otherwise that gives you an unfair advantage of you being able to get the final word on everything.

That's fair. I was only stating that because I didn't know how the extensions applied.

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Ouch.

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All that effort, too. Ouch.

I shouldn't have spent that much time writing those speeches.

/shrug

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I saw the Ontario result, and I'm like "Grits probably have got a landslide going on here"

Saddest part is, both of the people who played as Trudeau put in like half the effort (or even less) than I did. Yes, I messed up once or twice, but at least I took a risk and wrote all those speeches (and advertisements and the rest).

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I saw the Ontario result, and I'm like "Grits probably have got a landslide going on here"

Saddest part is, both of the people who played as Trudeau put in like half the effort (or even less) than I did. Yes, I messed up once or twice, but at least I took a risk and wrote all those speeches (and advertisements and the rest).

Just my two cents since I have been watching from afar (I'm delighted Truman found my previous Mock Parliament model useful, he's done a brilliant job), but a reality with these games is that the amount of effort is not always equal to the results, particularly if mistakes are made (and we all make our mistakes in these political games, none of us are infallible).

That can be a problem when one is a GM, because when one sees enthusiasm and a lot of effort put into something one does wish to reward those players who put the extra work or are just great at playing, and yet one must strive towards being more impartial and judging performances on their IC merits or mistakes.

Long story short, I hope this particular game continues to do well, and that winning or losing players are not discouraged by results. After all, it wouldn't be an accurate political simulation without defeat or loss.

(PS: Having said that, I was privately but strongly cheering for wxtransit and the Conservative)

Fair enough, I've now had to realize that challenge over the past few days now moderating my first game.

(Also, thanks )

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Wait, I completely forgot I was in this.

Welcome back!

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Anyway, it looks like my party is completely out of touch with the people. Time to form a breakaway faction.

Aww, I was wanting a leadership challenge!

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Anyway, it looks like my party is completely out of touch with the people. Time to form a breakaway faction.

Aww, I was wanting a leadership challenge!

LIBERTARIAN PARTY OF CANADA CHOO CHOO MOTHERERS

That...already exists.

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I kinda wanna play as Jim Prentice and do a Leadership coup against Scheer, but that would be a bit of dick move to xtransit, and my time constraints are still present, though much improved.

You could join as the Bloc or Greens

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Given that there is now a Lib. Majority, and Bloc Can't exactly do too much in this situation but watch the Liberals enact their policies, that in Atlasia bills are starting to come in and I need to focus on that a bit, as well as that I'm having a good amount of fun playing in Post-Obama, I will be dropping out as Rheal Fortin and the Bloc Quebecois.  I had a lot of fun playing this game, and, though part of me is angry at the results and how (it seemed to me) that Transit's effort was thrown away for a single mistake he made, I will be willing to come back to this board in the next iteration of Mock Parliament.

Thank you Truman for this first experience, and I thank all of my fellow players for their efforts.

Understood, Not Madigan, though I'm sorry to see you go; always feel free to rejoin (either as Fortin or as another character) should the mood strike you. For the record: the Conservatives did not loose the election because of one comment. I don't want to be unfair to Wxtransit by going over everything that contributed to his grade over the course of five turns, but the "social conservative" moment was not the deciding factor. The system by which I turn schedules into grades into polling averages into seats in parliament is far more complicated than me just saying "social conservatism = bad!" and lopping thirty seats off the Conservative margin.

But that's what I wanted to do in the game I'm moderating!

In all seriousness, I'd like to change my character to Jim Prentice, former Premier of Alberta.

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Despite some quarrels here or there, this campaign has been fun, and I can't wait to see what the next round will bring!

Thanks to Truman for managing such a hectic election and my opponents for making this race enjoyable.

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I'd like to play as Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party if possible.

Yay, we have the Greens back!

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So...

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Due to the fact that no other candidates declared before Thursday's deadline, does this mean Prentice is elected leader?

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Also, it would probably be best to shorten turns to three days or so so that we don't lose activity.